Filip Springer, author of History of a Disappearance: The Forgotten Story of a Polish Town, will be in the United States from Poland this spring for an author tour. He'll also be in Hay-on-Wye, Wales, in May for the Hay Festival and back in the UK in August for the Edinburgh International Book Festival. Catch him in person at one of these live events! Watch this space for updates.
Author Events
- April 25, 2017: UIC Polish Studies Annual Hejna Conference (Chicago, IL)
- April 25, 2017: Unabridged Bookstore (Chicago, IL)
- April 26, 2017: The Booksmith (San Francisco, CA)
- April 29, 2017: Common Good Books (Saint Paul, MN)
- May 2, 2017: Ridgewoodteka Book Club at Topos Bookstore Café (Ridgewood [Queens], NY)
- May 3, 2017: PEN World Voices Festival: "Water as Weapon" (New York, NY)
- May 4, 2017: PEN World Voices Festival's Literary Quest: Westbeth Edition (New York, NY)
- May 5, 2017: Lit Crawl NYC's "A Most Exquisite Corpse" (New York, NY)
- May 6, 2017: Greenpoint Public Library (Brooklyn, NY)
- May 26, 2017: Hay Festival (Hay-on-Wye, Wales, UK)
- August 13, 2017: Edinburgh International Book Festival (Edinburgh, Scotland, UK)
By Filip Springer
Translated from the Polish by Sean Gasper Bye
Winner of Asymptote Journal’s 2016 Close Approximations Translation Contest and Shortlisted for the Ryszard Kapuściński Prize, History of a Disappearance is the fascinating true story of a small mining town in the southwest of Poland that, after seven centuries of history, disappeared.
Paperback • ISBN: 9781632061157
Publication date: Apr 4, 2017